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09.07.2025
In 1969, a group of hippies founded Taylor Camp on the North Shore of Kauai, where they partied and lived communally until officials burned it down in 1977.
Archaeologists have recovered 22 massive stone blocks, once part of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, from the Mediterranean seafloor near Egypt.
A T. rex could bite with 8,000 pounds of force, a new study reveals — but it's surprisingly not the strongest bite in history.
08.07.2025
Scientists in Turkey discovered human brain tissues that has been preserved since the Bronze Age.
The wreck of the Nossa Senhora do Cabo, a Portuguese treasure ship seized by pirates in 1721, has been identified near Madagascar.
Andrzej Korpikiewicz discovered this well-preserved sword while walking along the Vistula River in Warsaw's Tarchomin neighborhood.
In ancient Greek myth, Arachne is a weaver who bests the goddess Athena in a contest, and is subsequently transformed into a spider and forced to weave for eternity.
"Veni, vidi, vici," which translates to "I came, I saw, I conquered," is a phrase attributed to Julius Caesar following the 47 B.C.E. Battle of Zela.
07.07.2025
Researchers are optimistic that the find is proof that Paleolithic humans actively hunted mammoths using a variety of tools.
The personal librarian of J.P. Morgan, Belle da Costa Greene was a rare books expert and library director who passed for white for most of her life.
06.07.2025
The discovery of the Mawangdui medical manuscripts in the tomb of Lady Dai show that acupuncture has more basis in observation of human anatomy than previously believed.
05.07.2025
President John Adams died at age 90 in Quincy, Massachusetts, on July 4, 1826, the same exact day as fellow Founding Father Thomas Jefferson.
The photograph shows a young Harriet Tubman in an image of the American abolitionist that has never seen before.
04.07.2025
According to researchers, the fossil is a rare find given the scarcity of prehistoric specimen discoveries in the area.
03.07.2025
The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist took place between 2011 and 2012, when thieves siphoned 3,300 tons of maple syrup worth $18 million from Quebec's strategic reserves.
02.07.2025
The "Seramik Batigi" shipwreck found off the coast of Adrasan, Turkey has yielded hundreds of plates and bowls that remain stunningly intact.
A UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List site in Turkey was illegally turned into a café, drawing outrage from archaeologists and the general public.
01.07.2025
Launched at the U.S. base Camp Century in 1959, Project Iceworm sought to build an underground network of tunnels and launch sites for nuclear missiles beneath an ice sheet in Greenland.
From Al Capone to John Dillinger, these historic photos will take you back to the early 20th-century gangland days of the Windy City.
Scientists are using the fungus Aspergillus flavus, believed to be responsible for the "curse of King Tut's tomb," to fight cancer.
Known as the Leper King, Baldwin IV ruled Jerusalem from 1174 to his death in 1185, despite battling an increasingly debilitating case of leprosy.
A facial reconstruction of a Stone Age woman found in a cave in Belgium shows that she had lighter skin than other hunter-gatherers in Western Europe.
30.06.2025
It is the first full 3D skull of Najash rionegrina, a snake species that sported hind legs during prehistoric times.
29.06.2025
These Wild West mining towns were once bustling outposts with plenty of bars, brothels, and hotels — until their mines dried up.
28.06.2025
Statues of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut were broken during antiquity to deactivate their supernatural powers, new study says.
The boomerang found in Poland's Obłazowa Cave in the 1980s was originally estimated to be 18,000 years old, but a new study found that it's far older.
The excavation took place decades ago in the early 1990s, but technology simply hadn't caught up enough to analyze the DNA — until now.
27.06.2025
At the site of a Roman encampment from the Marcomannic Wars, archaeologists in South Moravia found a soldier's bronze wrist purse.
In ancient Egyptian funerary rituals, canopic jars were used to hold embalmed human organs removed from the body during mummification.
On July 1, 2005, R&B icon Luther Vandross died from a heart attack at age 54 in Edison, New Jersey, two years after suffering a stroke.
To determine how prehistoric humans traveled from Taiwan to Japan 30,000 years ago, scientists recreated the voyage themselves.
26.06.2025
A 700-year-old gold ring found by a treasure hunter at Pustý hrad castle in Zvolen, Slovakia features a sapphire from Sri Lanka.
A casual stroll on the beach turned into the historic discovery of a Royal Air Force fighter plane wreck from April 1944.
From jazz clubs to the rise of famous skyscrapers like the Chrysler Building, see what New York really looked like during the 1920s.
The library in Stratonikeia was built during the Hellenistic period, was redesigned during the Roman era, and remained in use until the 7th century C.E.
After surviving the Nazis, Liviu Librescu became a renowned engineering professor and gave his life to save students during the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting.
The remains of a prehistoric volcano, Ball's Pyramid looms 1,877 feet above the surface of the Pacific just south of Lord Howe Island between New Zealand and Australia.
25.06.2025
During the construction of a new highway near Łabunie, Poland, archaeologists discovered the tusk and pelvis bone of a mammoth.
Utility workers in Lima stumbled upon this millennia-old mummy, believed to be from the Chancay culture, while digging trenches for a gas pipeline.
Jayne Marie Mansfield had a complicated relationship with her mother Jayne Mansfield, who died in a car crash in 1967 when Jayne Marie was 16.